Make sense of complex risk environments
In a rapidly changing world, we help you keep pace with the hazard and risk landscape to anticipate the threats that lie ahead. Our predictive analytics and expertise in rapid, multi-dimensional risk analysis spans across diverse domains to inform strategic and tactical decisions that enhance safety and security and build resilience to major shocks.
Let our experts and predictive analytics help you enhance:
- Support for vulnerable populations
- Strategic decisions about infrastructure placement and resource allocation
- Partnerships and cooperation between international bodies, civilian and military organizations
- Training and exercises simulations
- More…
Decision Support Analytics Dashboards
Global Risk and Vulnerability Index
2050 Global Climate Change Index
The only global analysis of its kind
PDC’s 2050 Global Climate Change Impact Analysis represents a revolutionary breakthrough in the scaling and processing of extremely large geographic datasets. The analysis is flexible and can be run using multiple scenarios at at any scale.
Fragility Index
PDC’s nationally-recognized Fragility Assessment was updated for the entire globe in 2024. The assessment examines the components of state fragility and provides a country-level comparison of the ability of countries to respond to and recover from destabilizing shocks. The assessment was first released in 2020 and later referenced in the 2022 U.S. Fragility Act.
PDC data scientists discuss fragility, climate change, and other pressing issues they’re working on in the Analytics Lab
Women, Peace and Security
PDC’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) analytical framework was developed in partnership with the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It provides an evidence-based approach to effectively implement the national WPS Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan (SFIP) through inclusive security. The analysis identifies key gender characteristics and issues to inform planning and identify long-term investment programs to improve gender-based resilience, peace, and security around the globe.
Personal Security
PDC’s new Personal Security Index provides a country-level measure of societal safety and well-being. The index integrates data on violence, governance, economic conditions, and disaster exposure to provide a measure of where individuals are at higher risk of violence, exploitation, and insecurity.
Food Security
PDC’s Food Security Index provides a comprehensive assessment of factors that contribute to food insecurity, examining physical and social access to food, dietary quality, and nutritional deficiencies, while also considering environmental factors, economic challenges and food production.
National Disaster Risk and Preparedness
PDC’s National Disaster Preparedness Baseline Assessment analyzes the driver’s of risk at the subnational level and provides a comprehensive analysis of national disaster management capacity. The assessment is the only one recognized by the United Nations to help countries operationalize the goals of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction—providing an evidence-based foundation for actions to be taken and investments to be made in achieving long-term resilience. Data and results are available in DisasterAWARE Pro for emergency and disaster management use and can be downloaded at the link above.
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Other Areas of Focus
PDC’s portfolio of work extends to other areas of complex risk analysis including assessment of the potential impacts of unregulated fishing, modern slavery, vulnerability of critical assets to climate-induced hazards, and much more.
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